Ant and the Grasshopper

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Ant and the Grasshopper
Engineering Entrance , JEE Main , JEE Advanced , Motivational

Read it somewhere and foudn it fits the current mood.. so here it is:

And and the Grasshopper

An Old Story:
The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away.
Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. The Grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.

Indian Version:

The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The Grasshopper thinks the Ant's a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the Ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.

NDTV, BBC, CNN show up to provide pictures of the shivering Grasshopper next to a video of the Ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor Grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the Ant's house.

Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with other Grasshoppers demanding that Grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter ..

Mayawati states this as `injustice' done on Minorities.

Amnesty International and Kofi Annan criticize the Indian Government for not upholding the fundamental rights of the Grasshopper.

The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the Grasshopper (many promising Heaven and Everlasting Peace for prompt support as against the wrath of God for non-compliance) ..

Opposition MPs stage a walkout. Left parties call for 'Bengal Bandh' in West Bengal and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry.

CPM in Kerala immediately passes a law preventing Ants from working hard in the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty among Ants and Grasshoppers.

Lalu Prasad allocates one free coach to Grasshoppers on all Indian Railway Trains, aptly named as the 'Grasshopper Rath'.

Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the ' Prevention of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act' [POTAGA], with effect from the beginning of the winter.

Arjun Singh makes 'Special Reservation ' for Grasshoppers in Educational Institutions & in Government Services.

The Ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes,it's home is confiscated by the Government and handed over to the Grasshopper in a ceremony covered by NDTV.

Arundhati Roy calls it ' A Triumph of Justice'.

Lalu calls it 'Socialistic Justice '.

CPM calls it the ' Revolutionary Resurgence of the Downtrodden '

Kofi Annan invites the Grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly.

Many years later...

The Ant has since migrated to the US and set up a multi-billion dollar company in Silicon Valley,

100s of Grasshoppers still die of starvation despite reservation somewhere in India,
.....AND

As a result of loosing lot of hard working Ants and feeding the
grasshoppers,..
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India is still a developing country…!!!

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source: e-mail

 


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New kid on the Block

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7 Jun 2009 16:51:33 IST
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Fantastic!!!!

New kid on the Block

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7 Jun 2009 21:36:55 IST
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wow..!!

Blazing goIITian

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9 Jun 2009 13:22:08 IST
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gr88....

New kid on the Block

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19 Jun 2009 15:22:26 IST
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awesome

Hot goIITian

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19 Jun 2009 15:33:44 IST
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gr8,its a fact

Cool goIITian

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15 Feb 2010 15:10:58 IST
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wow !!! gr88 one............

Blazing goIITian

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15 Feb 2010 17:53:02 IST
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thats a repeat man

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Blazing goIITian

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Cool goIITian

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15 Feb 2010 18:00:59 IST
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umm... i guess u shld hv see something before saying this.......... THIS ARTICLE IS Been POSTED on 7 June 2009 and U HAD POSTED URS on 13 July 2009 .. SO just shut Up as u would hd also copied that from some Source !!

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Blazing goIITian

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28 Feb 2010 20:08:25 IST
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get lost ^^^^

Cool goIITian

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1 Mar 2010 11:13:00 IST
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Don't copy others dear

Hot goIITian

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4 Mar 2010 15:21:06 IST
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whatever might me the originality of it but it is a gr8 article.........



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